World Traditional Medicine Day civilization of the ancient mystery medicine has what

October 22 is the World Traditional Medicine Day, a little mysterious traditional medicine often play an unexpected effect in the treatment of disease, and when it comes to traditional medicine, people first associated with China's long history of Chinese medicine.

In addition to China's Chinese medicine, there are many "unknown" traditional medicine in the world, the following Xinhua Health for you to inventory. Arab traditional medicine? After 750 AD Abbasid period, Arab doctors made many world-famous medicines, such as psyllium powder, geranium powder, raw sinking powder, rhubarb and son of the formula, ambergris, rose water and so on.

Egyptian traditional medicine in Egypt in 2500 BC sculpture, you can see the surgeon at that time to implement the operation. Ancient Egypt's earliest medical monograph is the papyrus text medical books, written about 1900 BC ~ 1500 years ago, its content involves 3000 BC ~ 2500 years before the record. Now found are Kang's papyrus medical book, Smith's papyrus medical book and Ebers papyrus medical book.

Medicine in Mesopotamia? Mesopotamia refers to the Tigris and Euphrates River Basin, roughly centered on the area of present-day southern Iraq. The earliest civilizations in this region date back to 5000 B.C.

Cuneiform writings from around 3000 B.C.

record that the liver - the organ - was the center of the blood, and that diseases were classified as fevers, strokes, psychiatric symptoms, eye, ear, and jaundice, in addition to rheumatism, heart disease, tumors, abscesses, schistosomiasis, dysentery, pneumonia, dermatological diseases, and venereal diseases. Some descriptions are very close to modern medicine.